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142 Khaled Hosseini

“I hear she is a decent girl, hardworking and kind. But no
khastegars, no suitors, have knocked on the general’s door since.”
Baba sighed. “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days,
sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole
lifetime, Amir,” he said.

Lying awake in bed that night, I thought of Soraya Taheri’s
sickle-shaped birthmark, her gently hooked nose, and the way her
luminous eyes had fleetingly held mine. My heart stuttered at the
thought of her. Soraya Taheri. My Swap Meet Princess.